Gram Sabhas will be conducted in 9734 village panchayats in all the 27 districts of Chhattisgarh on the anniversary of Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar, the architect of Indian Constitution, from April 14.
Chief minister Raman Singh has appealed to the common man to attend these gram sabhas in large number, said in an official statement issued here on Friday.
The chief minister said that in each gram sabha people would be informed about the public welfare schemes of the state government and the account of the works done by the village panchayats would also be presented before the people.
According to an official press statement issued here on Friday, the state panchayat and rural development department, for conducting the gram sabhas from April 14, has issued a circular to all the district collectors, chief executive officers and all the district auditors.
In the gram sabhas, the names of defaulters, including former and present office-bearers and other officers and employees would also be read before the public.
In the circular issued from the secretariat, a list of proposed works to be done for the villagers has been given and the collector, district panchayat, janpad panchayat and village panchayat can include other subjects in the work list according to the local needs.
According to the circular, directives have been issued to hold gram sabhas every year on Netaji Subhashchand Jayanti on January 23, Dr Ambedkar Jayanti on April 14, former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi Jayanti on August 20 and Mahatma Gandhi Jayanti on October 2 also.
In the circular, in was instructed to prepare time-table for holding gram sabhas on April 14 in each gram panchayat and its dependant villages at all janpad panchayat level in all districts.
The programme would be arranged in such a way that meeting would be held in only one village in each village panchayat at a time, so that the sarpanch and secretary of the village panchayat concerned could easily be available in each gram sabha.
For organising the gram sabha, responsibility could be given to the officers and employees according to local need.
According to the circular, in the April 14 gram sabha, the works done on the decision taken in the earlier gram sabhas will be reviewed. Besides, the villagers will be informed about the provisions made in the Forest Rights Act 2006.
Approval of the works sanctioned under the backward region grant fund and the expenditure made on them in the financial year 2011-12 and 2012-13will be accorded and a proposal will also be passed to issue utilisation certificate of the expenditure made in these works.
In the gram sabhas, to promote rural sanitation programmes, information will be collected about the constructed and under construction toilets in the houses.